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• Apple and Valve Rumoured to be Partnering on AR Headset

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  Apple is rumoured to be working with game outfit Valve on an augmented reality headset that may be due for release next year. Citing industry sources, DigiTimes points to late 2020 as the earliest reasonable debut for unnamed headset, and identifies Taiwan’s original design manufacturing specialists Quanta Computer and Pegatron as handling the manufacturing. While the news firmly falls under ‘rumour’, there are a number of reasons the suggestion is both compelling and fascinating. Valve is the respected and often beloved video game [...]

• Mainline Raises USD$6.8m (£5.26m); ACCC Enforces Refunds for Fallout 76 Customers

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  TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Mainline Raises USD$6.8m (£5.26m); ACCC enforces refunds for Fallout 76 customers; and Amazon disallows non-approved third-party Nintendo sales. Mainline Raises USD$6.8m (£5.26m) Esports tournament software company Mainline has announced that it has raised USD$6.8m (£5.26m) in a Series A funding round led by Work America Capital. The funds will purportedly be used to further develop the software powering its tournament platform, as well as boosting its marketing efforts. [...]

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• Sumo Group Welcomes New Chairman, Posts Half-Year Financials; Sony Selling Hardware and Games Direct to Consumer

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  TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Sumo Group Welcomes New Chairman, Posts Half-Year Profits; Sony Selling Hardware and Games Direct to Consumer; Improbable Acquires The Multiplayer Guys.   Sumo Group Welcomes New Chairman, Posts Half-Year Profits The Sumo Group has named game industry veteran Ian Livingstone as its new chairman, while reporting healthy pre-tax profits in its its H1 2019 financials. Headquartered in Sheffield, the Sumo Group has studios under its Sumo Digital banner located across [...]

• Denuvo Releases Mobile Game Protection Solution; GameStop Lays Off 120 Staff

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  TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Denuvo releases Mobile Game Protection solution; GameStop lays off 120 staff; and Starbreeze posts quarterly loss of SEK64.4m (£5.44m). Denuvo releases Mobile Game Protection solution Digital security platform Denuovo by Irdeto has released its Mobile Game Protection solution, designed to protect mobile titles against hacking, cheating, and piracy. The technology purportedly does not require any alterations to the title’s source code, meaning it can be retro-actively applied to [...]